Enter the funhouse

 

Welcome to the fun house,

where sense becomes dust

in a forgotten instance,

like incense drifting through

the stale air.

The demons lair,

where hope soon shifts

gears into painful despair.

Sharing your heart,

a practice long ago departed,

now any love is led

down the twisting corridors.

Greeted by a devilish laugh

and a cutting thud.

 

Twisting rooms

swirl in and out of view.

Emotions left askew.

The wavelike motion

of the wobbling alleyways,

leaves your mind

planted firmly on the ground

but your thoughts floating in pain.

The hours are stop, start.

Fast, slow, open, closed, on, off,

whether I'm coming or going

I don't know,

but they are so very different

from the way things ought to be,

instead, we are treated

to distant haunting tunes hourly.

Confounding your sanity.

 

In this fun house the mirrors distort,

leaving you with only

self-loathing to report.

My body doesn't look like that,

where did I gain that fat?

And why has my smile

fell flat on the floor,

scurrying away like a rat?

In the ball pit

you realise that these are not balls,

but giant woodlice

wanting to feast on us all.

Dog sized insects try to climb the walls,

but gravity has different ideas

and at your four feet they fall.

 

Fairground cacophony,

played through the speakers,

by hells own demonic symphony,

It's really affecting me,

making my feet feel weird.

My heartbeat seems rapid,

or has it stopped still, no normality.

Up is down, left is right

and your whole world

feels flipped upside down.

Thinking on your feet,

you try to find escape

but those nagging melodies scrape away 

the movement centre of your brain,

playing around with your sanity.

Clustering all around me.

Notes that shouldn't be heard,

turned up loud. Grinding

any sense you had

into fine dust, then blowing it away.

In this fun house

where we while away our dwindling days,

in hope of some fairytale story

to bring escape to the page.

 

 

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Peace, Love & Poetry
Kyle